Luis Galarreta Explained

Luis Galarreta
Office:Peruvian Representative to the Andean Parliament
Term Start:26 July 2021
Office1:Secretary General of Popular Force
President1:Keiko Fujimori
Term Start1:5 October 2019
Predecessor1:Luz Salgado
Office2:Deputy Secretary General of Popular Force
President2:Keiko Fujimori
Term Start2:7 December 2018
Term End2:5 October 2019
Predecessor2:Miguel Torres Morales
Successor2:TBD
Office3:President of Congress
Term Start3:26 July 2017
Term End3:26 July 2018
Predecessor3:Luz Salgado
Successor3:Daniel Salaverry
Office4:Third Vice President of Congress
Vicepresident3:1st Vice President
Mario Mantilla
2nd Vice President
Richard Acuña
3rd Vice President
Mauricio Mulder
President4:Luis Iberico
Term Start4:26 July 2015
Term End4:26 July 2016
Predecessor4:Esther Capuñay
Successor4:Luciana León
Office5:Member of Congress
Constituency5:Lima
Term Start5:26 July 2006
Term End5:16 March 2020
Office6:Lima City Councilman
Term Start6:1 January 2003
Term End6:26 July 2006
Birth Name:Luis Fernando Galarreta Velarde
Birth Date:12 March 1971
Birth Place:Lima, Peru
Alma Mater:University of San Martín de Porres (LLB)

Luis Fernando Galarreta Velarde (born 12 March 1971) is a Peruvian Fujimorist politician and a former Congressman representing Lima between 2006 and 2020. He was President of the Congress for the 2017–2018 annual term.[1] [2] Galarreta was part of the presidential ticket of Keiko Fujimori in the 2021 elections that lost the elections to the Pedro Castillo ticket, however, he was elected to the Andean Parliament.

Early life and education

Luis Fernando Galarreta Velarde was born on 12 March 1971 in Lima.[3] Son of Aníbal Galarreta, a native of the La Libertad region and Rita Velarde from Lima. According to him, he told the Extraordinary program in 2013, his mother took the pill Thalidomide, which was used to relieve nausea in pregnant women. Currently, the drug is prohibited from being marketed because it was found to cause abnormalities in the extremities of fetuses.[4]

He completed his primary and secondary school studies at the James Monroe School in the city of Lima, also attended the National Rehabilitation Institute of Callao where he learned the use of his prostheses.

He studied Law and Political Science at the University of San Martín de Porres (1990 - 1997), obtaining a bachelor's degree. He has a specialization in Banking and Finance at the San Ignacio de Loyola Higher Educational Institution (1993 - 1995).[5]

He has been in charge of the administration of various social projects. In the Asociación Civil Pro Educación he was responsible for the “TIP's” program aimed at street children in the city of Lima. He is the Executive President of the Asociación Civil Pro Deber, which he formed with a group of colleagues from the university. Pro Deber is aimed at promoting citizen duties and strengthening the political and economic principles of a culture of freedom.[6]

Political career

Early political career

From 1997 on he was committed to the NPO "Pro Education" of the conservative National Renewal (RN) party leader Rafael Rey Rey. He also joined Rey's party at the same time, the RN. In 1999 he represented the National Council for the Integration of Persons with Disability adjunct to the Labour Ministry. In 2002, he was elected councillor of Lima for a four-year term under the National Unity (UN) alliance in which Luis Castañeda was elected Mayor of Lima.

Congressman

In the 2006 election, he was elected to Congress for the 2006–2011 term for the same group. When the UN broke in 2008, Galarreta decided to stay on the National Unity bench, now congruent with the Christian People's Party (PPC). Consequently, he left the RN and later he was a member of the Political Commission of the PPC. In the 2011 election, he was re-elected for another five-year term on the ticket of the Alliance for the Great Change, to which the Christian democrats now belong. He was Third Vice President of the Congress during the 2015-2016 annual term under the leadership of Luis Iberico. Five years later in the 2016 election, he was re-elected for the 2016–2021 term this time, on the ticket of the Fujimorist Popular Force of Keiko Fujimori however, his term was cut short following to the dissolution of the Congress by President Martín Vizcarra in 2019 and served as a member of the Permanent Assembly until 16 March 2020, the date when the new Congress was sworn in. He was the President of the Congress for the 2017-2018 annual term. His election as President of the Congress generated controversy since it would make him the first President of Congress with a disability. He briefly served as the President of Peru in 2018, following the resignation of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. He left the Christian People's Party in 2015 and joined the Fujimorist Popular Force.[7]

Post-congressional term and 2021 election campaign

On 30 October 2020, Keiko Fujimori, announced through her Twitter account that she made her presidential candidacy official in internal elections in view of the elections of the following year together with Galarreta for the first vice presidency and the former Lima Lieutenant Mayor Patricia Juárez Gallegos for the second vice presidency being the formula chosen in December by the votes of 37 party delegates as it was the only list and after this the campaign began.[8] [9] At the same time, he ran for a seat in the Andean Parliament, heading the list of his party after the referendum on the reform of the Constitution of Peru in 2018 proposed by then-President Martín Vizcarra approved through popular consultation the prohibition of immediate reelection of parliamentarians to the Congress of Peru.[10] [11] The ticket was defeated by the Castillo led-ticket of Free Peru. However, he was elected to the Andean Parliament.

Galarreta signed the Madrid Charter, becoming a member of an international group of right-wing and far-right individuals organized by Spanish party Vox.[12]

Personal life

On 1 April 2021, Keiko Fujimori announced in her Twitter that Galarreta tested positive for COVID-19.[13] [14] [15]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Luis Galarreta: "Fue un error gravísimo querer 'desalbertizar' a Fuerza Popular" . Martínez . Sebastian Ortiz . 2019-04-21 . El Comercio . . es . 2019-05-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190428070150/https://elcomercio.pe/politica/luis-galarreta-error-gravisimo-desalbertizar-fuerza-popular-noticia-628292 . 2019-04-28 . live .
  2. Web site: Fuerza Popular trabajará por la libertad de sus líderes tras su relanzamiento . PERÚ21 . Redacción . 2019-04-15 . Peru21 . . es . 2019-05-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190417154306/https://peru21.pe/politica/fuerza-popular-trabajara-libertad-lideres-relanzamiento-fotos-nndc-472257 . 2019-04-17 . live .
  3. Web site: Voto Informado. 2021-05-11. votoinformado.jne.gob.pe.
  4. Web site: Cruz. Yohel. 2017-07-30. Conoce más sobre Luis Galarreta, el nuevo presidente del Congreso. 2021-05-11. RPP. es.
  5. Web site: 2017-03-26. JNE - Voto Informado. 2021-05-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20170326034259/http://www.votoinformado.pe/voto/hoja-de-vidas.aspx?p=sn/+f6syxXgyxTcWaWN5SWm0ohS26cHN. 26 March 2017.
  6. Web site: Luis Fernando Galarreta Velarde. 2021-05-11. www4.congreso.gob.pe.
  7. Web site: 2017-03-26. JNE - Voto Informado. 2021-05-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20170326034259/http://www.votoinformado.pe/voto/hoja-de-vidas.aspx?p=sn/+f6syxXgyxTcWaWN5SWm0ohS26cHN. 26 March 2017.
  8. Web site: Clarín.com. 2020-12-09. Arranca la campaña presidencial en Perú con Keiko Fujimori y Ollanta Humala entre los 23 candidatos. 2021-04-10. www.clarin.com. es.
  9. Web site: GESTIÓN. NOTICIAS. 2020-10-31. Keiko Fujimori oficializó su precandidatura presidencial en comicios internos de Fuerza Popular Elecciones 2021 nndc PERU. 2021-04-10. Gestión. es.
  10. Web site: Luis Galarreta: De presidente del Congreso a candidato a la primera vicepresidencia del Perú. 2021-05-08. América Noticias. es.
  11. Web site: Herrada. Diego Pajares. 2020-12-04. Elecciones 2021: claves para entender por qué algunos congresistas aspiran a ser parlamentarios andinos El poder en tus Manos. 2021-05-08. RPP. es.
  12. Web site: Carta de Madrid . 2021-12-07 . Fundación Disenso . es.
  13. Web site: GESTIÓN. NOTICIAS. 2021-04-01. Keiko Fujimori informa que Luis Galarreta fue diagnosticado con COVID-19 nndc PERU. 2021-05-31. Gestión. es.
  14. News: PERÚ. NOTICIAS EL COMERCIO. 2021-04-01. Keiko Fujimori informa que Luis Galarreta fue diagnosticado con COVID-19 nndc POLITICA. 2021-05-31. El Comercio. es.
  15. Web site: Luis Galarreta, candidato a la vicepresidencia por Fuerza Popular, fue diagnosticado con COVID-19. 2021-05-31. canaln.pe. April 2021 . es.